Informative Essay On Concussions

During mankind’s presence on this earth, dating back centuries when the first humans inhabited this earth playing games also known as sports was a big part of life. Little did we know that sports would become one of the largest marketing and mobile companies on the earth. Sports can wear on your body; it can also drastically wear on your brain. Concussion’s are the most serious injury in sports. Weider stated, “Brain injuries cause more deaths than any other sports injury” (42). Do we really know the truth about concussions and the effect they have on the brain? First, we must understand what concussions are and the dangers that they posses. From the latest data gathered a concussion, “is an altered mental status with a brief alteration in the level of consciousness following blunt head trauma after following up to four hours of head trauma, any one of the following symptoms: headache, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and many other side effects including altered behavior. With the most prominent side effects being headache, dizziness and fatigue” (Eden 14). In the article “Knocked Cold,” explained, “that it is popular belief that you have to have a direct blow to the head to suffer from a concussion, although this is
Which can inhibit every day life. Concussions are a serious matter and need to be handled appropriately. Now should we stop playing sports that is a question that is above me to answer; because of the amount of money the NFL, NBA, MLB & other sports bring in each year due to ads and tickets sales. There has even been reports of the NFL covering up traces of people trying to bring up the topic of concussion. Since it is such a huge topic and controversial topic it needs to be fully investigated to insure the safety of millions around the world. Specifically, football players with the amount of contact they go through each